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  1. Jul 4th, 2003, 10:26 AM #1
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    Question vb6: Custom Control stay s not in front

    I've build an custom control depending on the MSHFlexgrid the control doesnt stay in front of other controls and stops painting when a frame end is reached. How can i solve this?
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  2. Jul 4th, 2003, 06:35 PM #2
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    What do you mean by "stops painting when a frame end is reached". If you mean that the flexgrid is inside a frame and you can't see the whole flexgrid then you'll either need to reposition the flexgrid or make the frame bigger.
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    And if you can't get it to go in front of other controls, then that means that you probably have it set as Windowless.
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  4. Jul 5th, 2003, 03:15 PM #4
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    The control must go beyond the frame borders just like a combobox (Thats what my control is)
    The control is not windowless because it have window child controls.
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    Public Declare Function BringWindowToTop Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long
    did the ZOrder thing but the control still can't paint over frame borders
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  8. Jul 10th, 2003, 06:35 AM #7
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    You will probably need to use SetParent to change the parent window to the desktop, then make the window always on top. Theres a bunch of examples floating around in here. Search it up.

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  9. Jul 10th, 2003, 07:28 AM #8
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    How do i find the forms hwnd where the controls frame is placed in code? So i can use setparent.
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  11. Jul 11th, 2003, 03:28 AM #9
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    SetParent is not an option because the control must hold the frame as his parent. (When the frame.visible = false is set the control must diappear to) The only thing the control should do is paint over the frames border.
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  12. Jul 11th, 2003, 04:00 PM #10
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    it must work on nt 4.0, 2000 and XP.
    I'm developing on XP.
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